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Amazon S3 Plugin for WordPress: “A WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.”

Once setup, this plugin transparently integrates with your WordPress blog. File uploads are automatically saved into your Amazon S3 bucket without any extra steps. Once saved, these files will be delivered by Amazon S3, instead of your web host. Any image thumbnails that get created are saved to Amazon S3 too. You’ll also find an “Amazon S3″ tab next to your regular “Upload” tab, which allows you to easily browse and manage files that were not upload via WordPress.

Thanks to a comment the other day, I was reminded of a another useful add-on tool I came across a while back, JS-Kit. They have Ratings, Reviews, Comments, and Polls you can add to your blog or website.

Seems like a nice service, and the designs are unobtrusive and understated. Would love to know if you are using this service and what you think of it.

We migrated two more blogs from BlogHarbor to PressHarbor last night, please visit:

• Adventures in home working
• SAST Wingees

who posted about their migration experiences here and here.

If you are currently blogging with the Blogware platform and have been thinking about making the move to WordPress, we’ve got the solution for you!

Disqus is another add-on commenting service, I guess the most famous in this area would be Haloscan… Dave Winer is now using Disqus at www.scripting.com, I’m very interested in services like this and Disqus seems to have some advanced features…

I am sitting here in room S219 at BlogWorld Expo and was expecting to see Om Malik (www.gigaom.com), Mike Arrington (www.techcrunch.com), and Leo LaPorte (leoville.com) talk about The Cult of Blogging but Om Malik “couldn’t make it” and Mike Arrington “forgot all about” BlogWorld Expo.

So now we are listening to Leo interview iJustine while interjecting with stories about when he was using The Well and lynx and gopher. Yawn.

If I had Dave Winer’s chutzpah I would stand up and call bullshit on this.

Update: Om Mailik had a bad back, and Mike Arrington said he “never agreed to attend the conference“, although he apparently did agree to attend as long as Blogworld paid his airfare and hotel but some signals apparently got crossed later on, according convention organizer Rick Calvert. Arringon says in his blog post “the first I heard about the event was early this week” but Calvert shows emails from Arrington confirming he will attend… Gotta love it!

I am here at the first BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and blogging now from the “Blogger Lounge.” Should be a great couple of days, there are what looks t be thousands of people gathered and dozens of companies.

Big shout out to two of our BlogHarbor/PressHarbor bloggers (both started blogging on our BlogHarbor platform and migrated recently to PressHarbor, to our new WordPress hosting service) who are speaking at the event.

Matthew Cerrone, publisher of MetsBlog, is speaking at several presentations in the sports blogging track.

And Des Walsh, who blogs with us at Thinking Home Business, spoke at several presentations yesterday at the executive track.

If you’re here, let’s get together!!!